Those who are forced into being without an abode and/or dwelling are all to quickly deemed less than citizens. In many regards are even treated as less than human. How about thinking that we are NOT homeless, nor last-class citizens or non-human? We think, have feelings, have intellect and struggle. How would you feel to be thought of as anything less than human just for circumstances due to those of profit/gain/control?

There are a great many good people in the United States of America who are actually about being "Humanitarian" without ever needing to have such a title placed on them. many who self profess to be "Humanitarian" in reality are just talkers and not doers, unless of course, for some agenda that serves the select few of the group.

It always seems to turn out that those who actually care, do so because they actually are and aren't just for an agenda; a "pat on the back"; a job and/or something for ones self.

Thanks to all those who are willing to be "REAL humanitarians" without being known as such.

"James said a medical condition made it hard for him to work, but God had always looked after him", reports Pia Harold

Donations of more than
$110,000 (£67,000) have poured in from across the US for a Boston
homeless man who returned a lost bag with $42,000 in it.

Glen James alerted police after he found the backpack
containing cash and traveller's cheques last weekend, and the bag's
owner was then tracked down.

A complete stranger later started an online fund for Mr James after reading media reports about his honesty.

The man, Ethan Whittington, now plans to meet Mr James to give him the money.

This isn't only about rewarding a great guy. I think it's a statement to everyone in America”

Ethan WhittingtonFund starter

Mr Whittington, who lives in Midlothian,
Virginia, said he was so overwhelmed by Mr James' honesty that he
decided to start the fund.

"The fact that he's in the situation he is, being homeless,
it blew my mind that he would do this,'' Mr Whittington was quoted as
saying by the Associated Press.

He said his idea of starting donations on a crowdfunding website for Mr James "caught on like wildfire ever since"."It's brought me a lot of hope. This isn't only about rewarding a great guy. I think it's a statement to everyone in America."If we come together and work toward one thing and work together, then we can make it happen."Meanwhile, Mr James, a former Boston courthouse employee,
said that he would not have kept "even a penny" of the money he had
found in the backpack - even if he were desperate.

A Good Samaritan who returned a backpack containing cash and traveller's cheques is rewarded with donations from the public.

Video: Poor Man's Honesty Makes Him Rich

A fund established to help a homeless man who returned a
lost backpack containing more than $42,000 (£26,000) has raised almost
$110,000 (£68,500).

Boston man Glen James, 54, spoke to police after he found the backpack
containing $2,400 (£1,500) in cash and nearly $40,000 (£25,000) in
traveller's cheques at the South Bay Mall.The man who lost the backpack told workers at a nearby store and they called police, who later returned the backpack to him.Virginia resident Ethan Whittington read media accounts of Mr James'
honesty and started a fund for him on a crowd-funding website.The fund has since raised more than $100,000, including $182 (£114) of pocket money saved up by two young children.

The Boston Police Department publicly thanked Mr James, saying his actions were "a remarkable tribute to him and his honesty".Mr James said in a statement: "Even if I were desperate for money, I would not have kept even a penny of the money I found."I am extremely religious. God has always very well looked after me."

The front page of today’s New York Times has a powerful article
about the rising number of working New Yorkers who become "The Houseless" – the
result of NYC’s worsening affordability crisis and failed Bloomberg
policies.

Take notice citizens of the United States of America and all about the world, The New York Times finally comes forth to let you know - since you don't seem to trust us - that being "The Houseless" doesn't necessarily need to have you all stereotype us as: mentally ill; poor financial handlers; poor relationship intermingle people and so forth.

Is the trend reaching out into other areas, or are other areas pushing out those who fall victim to decayed society and/or profit/gain/control?

Alpha Manzueta, who has lived in a homeless shelter for three years, says she feels “stuck.” Michael Nagle for The New York Times

On many days, Alpha Manzueta gets off from one job at 7 a.m., only to
start her second at noon. In between she goes to a place she’s called
home for the last three years — a homeless shelter.

“I feel stuck,” said Ms. Manzueta, 37, who has a 2 ½-year-old daughter
and who, on a recent Wednesday, looked crisp in her security guard
uniform, waving traffic away from the curb at Kennedy International
Airport. “You try, you try and you try and you’re getting nowhere. I’m
still in the shelter.”

Alpha Manzueta holds two security guard jobs, one at Kennedy Airport.

Michael Nagle for The New York Times

With New York City’s homeless population in shelters at a record high of
50,000, a growing number of New Yorkers punch out of work and then sign
in to a shelter, city officials and advocates for the homeless say.
More than one out of four families in shelters, 28 percent, include at
least one employed adult, city figures show, and 16 percent of single
adults in shelters hold jobs.

Mostly female, they are engaged in a variety of low-wage jobs as
security guards, bank tellers, sales clerks, computer instructors, home
health aides and office support staff members. At work they present an
image of adult responsibility, while in the shelter they must obey
curfews and show evidence that they are actively looking for housing and
saving part of their paycheck.

Advocates of affordable housing say that the employed homeless are proof
of the widening gap between wages and rents — which rose in the city
even during the latest recession — and, given the shortage of subsidized
housing, of just how difficult it is to escape the shelter system, even
for people with jobs.

“A one-bedroom in East New York or the South Bronx is still $1,000 a
month,” said Patrick Markee, senior policy analyst with the Coalition for the Homeless, an advocacy and housing services group.

“The jobs aren’t enough to get people out of homelessness.”

David Garza, executive director of Henry Street Settlement, which runs
three family shelters and one shelter for single women with mental
illnesses, said that five years ago his shelters were placing 200
families a year into permanent housing. Last year, he said, they placed
50.

“Without low-income housing, it’s a maze with no way out,” Mr. Garza said.

The employed homeless are constantly juggling the demands of their two worlds.

A 45-year-old woman named Barbara, who works part time as a public
transit customer service representative, said she had to keep items like
razors and nail clippers at a storage center because they were not
allowed in the shelter for security reasons.

Sometimes she takes a tote bag filled with dirty clothes to work to take
to the laundromat afterward, she said, because the machines at the
shelter are always either broken or being used.

But, she said, there is no escaping the noise and fitful sleep of a dormitory shared with eight other women.

Like most homeless employed people interviewed for this article, Barbara
did not want to be identified by her full name for fear of losing her
privacy or her job. She has been homeless since 2011, she said, when her
unemployment insurance ran out and she could no longer afford her
apartment in Brooklyn. No one at work knows, she said.

“When it comes to the professional arena, I want people to think that I
got it together, that I’m not living paycheck to paycheck, that my only
option isn’t to buy secondhand,” she said.

Sometimes homeless workers discover one another.

Deirdre Cunningham, 21, who works two part-time jobs — as a bank teller
and as a sales clerk for an electronics store in Manhattan, said that at
one point a co-worker at the store invited her to an evening event. “I
said, ‘I can’t go, because I have curfew,’ and this co-worker said,
‘What do you mean curfew?’ ”

“I said, ‘I live in a shelter,’ and she said, ‘I do, too.’ ”

Ms. Cunningham, who has a 4-year-old daughter, said she has always been
open about her struggles. “A lot of people have problems, too,” she
said.

She said she left her parents’ home in the South Bronx in 2011 because
she did not want to expose her daughter to “family issues.” Two years
and three shelters later, she moved in August into her own $900-a-month
one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx with the help of a rent subsidy from
the Coalition for the Homeless. But the aid lasts for only two years.

“Now that I got my living situation under control, now it’s time for me
to go back to school, get a better job, be more of a mother,” said Ms.
Cunningham, who has completed training as a medical assistant but
aspires to be a journalist.

“My daughter wants to take ballet,” she said.

Deirdre Cunningham also works two jobs, as a bank teller and as a sales clerk at an electronics store.

Jabin Botsford/The New York Times

A city-commissioned study by the Vera Institute of Justice in 2005 found
that “contrary to popular belief,” 79 percent of homeless heads of
family had recent work histories and more than half had educational
levels, up to college, that made them employable.

Most, the study found, had experienced “destabilizing” events before
entering the shelter, most commonly the loss of a job, an eviction or
the loss of public assistance benefits.

In 2004, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled an ambitious plan to reduce
the city’s homeless population — then 38,000 — by two-thirds in five
years. The plan envisioned shifting dollars away from the shelter system
to create low-income housing with social services.

To make the shelter system less inviting, the city also stopped giving
homeless families priority for public housing, and made it harder for
those who left the system to return.

In 2011, when the state and federal support were withdrawn, the city
ended a program that gave rent subsidies for up to two years to help
families move out of shelters and into their own apartments.

Now the number of shelter residents
hovers around 50,000, according to the city’s Department of Homeless
Services. More than 9,000 are single adults and more than 40,000 other
residents are in families, including 21,600 children. The average
monthly cost for the government to shelter a family is more than $3,000;
the cost for a single person is more than $2,300.

Linda I. Gibbs, Mr. Bloomberg’s deputy mayor for health and human
services, said there were no local resources to keep up with demand for
subsidized housing after both federal and state money dried up.

Advocates for the homeless say the city should restore housing
assistance for shelter residents, including giving them priority for
public housing.

But in an interview, Ms. Gibbs reiterated the Bloomberg administration’s
long-held position that more benefits only attract more people to
shelters. “That drives more demand,” she said. “It’s a Catch-22.”

Ms. Gibbs said officials were now exploring expanding a city program
that helps families at risk of losing their homes to stay in place.

But those like Ms. Manzueta, the security guard, still need a way out.

She said she managed to hold on to her $8-an-hour positions and to take
courses to learn new skills. But with an eviction marring her credit
record and unable to afford more than $1,000 for rent, she has not been
able to land an apartment.

“New York City,” said Ms. Manzueta, a native, “is the hardest city to live in.”

The whole problem with falling victim to becoming "The Houseless" is all too quickly being stereotyped, especially those who often turn out to be more righteous than those with jobs, a place to call home and/or have standing in society.Granted, there are many who only play the system for their own profit/gain/control, but does that excuse those who claim to be qualified to help from not actually HELPING?WELL?

"The Houseless" has accumulated countless "Houseless" stories of abuse; wrongful stereotyping; help organizations and/or those calling themselves "HUMANITARIANS" who AREN'T qualified to actually be righteous unto those they claim to HELP and more. Stay tuned as the TRUTH comes to you via www.Houseless.org

Could it be that the massive system of "HELP" that has been created is first and foremost about profit/gain/control while only "PIMPING" the less fortunate?Well?

Could it be that it had taken about 1 year to finally recognize Mr. Glen James is only due to ?WELL?

Whyisn't Mr. Glen James actually being treated as a human in accordance with what he needs, not what the system wants him to be treated as?WELL

It's always a blessing to know that there does exist those who are "about it" without needing a "pat on the back", a tax break, and/or some sort of cause to fund their business. Thanks to Ethan Whittington, a 27-year-old from
Midlothian, Va. and all of those who are about it when it comes to being righteous.Could it be more than about time society in the United States of
America actually puts into place what they preach unto other countries?WELL? "The Houseless"

Sept. 16, 2013: Glen James, of Boston, left, smiles in the direction of
members of the media as Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis, right,
looks on during a news conference at the police headquarters, in Boston. (AP)

A homeless man in Boston was honored Monday for flagging down
police after he discovered a bag filled with $2,400 in cash and nearly
$40,000 in travelers checks, The Boston Globe reported.

Last summer, Glen James, who is in his 50s and lives in a homeless
shelter, noticed a young man at the South Bay plaza in Boston leave
behind a large bag, the report said. James observed the bag’s contents,
and alerted police because “God has always very well looked after me.”

“Even if I were desperate for money, I would not have kept even a
penny,” he wrote in a statement due to embarrassment about a speech
impediment.

James received a citation from Boston’s police commissioner and there
has been a website made, www.gofundme.com/4by2as, to raise money for
James, who said he receives food stamps and panhandles at times because
“It’s just nice to have some money in one’s pockets so that as a
homeless man I don’t feel absolutely broke all the time.”

Under the canopy at the T.J. Maxx store, Glen James sat among the
shopping carts, shaded from the late-summer sun. As shoppers bustled
through the South Bay plaza Saturday, James proofread a letter, resting
on the bag he brings with him when he panhandles.

As he read, James noticed a young man nearby, sitting on an
overturned carriage. He had a bag, too, a black backpack at his feet.
James went back to his letter.

When James looked up again, the man was gone. But his bag was still there.

After a time, James went over to see what had been left behind.
Inside, he found $2,400 in cash and nearly $40,000 in travelers checks,
along with a passport and personal papers. For a homeless man who
subsists on food stamps and spare change, it was a staggering sum, maybe
even a chance at a new life.

But James, a slight, bespectacled man in his mid-50s who says he has
been homeless for five years, said the thought of keeping the money
never crossed his mind.

“Even if I were desperate for money, I would not have kept even a
penny of the money found,” he said Monday in a handwritten statement.
“God has always very well looked after me.”

James immediately flagged down police, who in short order returned
the bag to its owner, a student visiting Boston from China. James, a man
who lives in a homeless shelter and relies on charity for change to
wash his clothes, had returned a small fortune without a second thought.

For his actions, James received a citation Monday at Boston police
headquarters, where Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis praised his
“extraordinary show of character and honesty.”

“It really is a remarkable tribute to him,” Davis said.

James, who has a speech impediment, said little at the ceremony,
saying he was self-conscious about his stutter. As cameras flashed, he
smiled nervously and appeared somewhat overwhelmed.

But when asked how he felt about returning so much money, he did not pause.

“Very, very good,” he said, letting loose a hearty laugh.

In his statement, James wrote about how he found the money and a bit
about himself. He had worked at a courthouse for 13 years as a file
clerk, he said, before being fired. On Monday, the courts could not
immediately confirm his employment. James could have gotten another job,
he said, but he suffers from an inner-ear disorder that causes
prolonged vertigo spells.

“The shelter is the perfect living situation with someone
who has Meniere’s disease,” he wrote. “There are many people in the
shelter to attend to me.”

Glen James said it never occurred to him to keep the money in the bag he
discovered at the South Bay shopping plaza in Boston. The backpack had
$2,400 in cash and nearly $40,000 in travelers checks and belonged to a
student from China. Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff

James said he has siblings and other relatives he could live with, but does not want to burden them.

He said he had not met the man whose bag he found, but said he was “very glad to make sure” it was returned to him safely.

James said he receives the “blessing” of food stamps and panhandles
for money for laundry, transportation, and “odds and ends.” Just having a
little money, he said, can make all the difference.

“It’s just nice to have some money in one’s pockets so that as a homeless man I don’t feel absolutely broke all the time.”

James thanked all the people who have given him spare change,
including mayoral candidate Charles Yancey, who had dropped a total of
$7 into his cup.

James’s story compelled Ethan Whittington, a 27-year-old from
Midlothian, Va., who has never been to Boston, to launch a fund for
James at www.gofundme.com/4by2as
. Within the first four hours, Whittington’s campaign raised $3,152, which he plans to deliver to James.

After receiving the backpack from James, police notified mall
security. They were later contacted by an employee at Best Buy, who said
a customer had told them he had lost his backpack containing a large
sum of money.

The owner was positively identified by his passport, police said.

As he left the ceremony at police headquarters, James took deliberate
steps, his eyes fixed on the floor. Then employees watching from behind
their desks stood and applauded. His eyes widened, and he nodded his
thanks.

Outside the station, James was asked if there was anything he would like, anything at all.

As he got into a police cruiser that would take him back to the shelter, he said, “No war.”

Matt Lee of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Peter Schworm can be reached at schworm@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @globepete.

"Even if I were desperate for money, I would not have kept even a ... penny," Glen James said.

(Photo: Karen Bleier AFP/Getty Images)

A homeless man in Boston who said "God has always very well looked
after me" was honored Monday for returning a Chinese visitor's lost
backpack that contained $2,400 in cash, nearly $40,000 in traveler's
checks and passports.

Though he has been homeless for several years, Glen James
said in a written statement, "Even if I were desperate for money, I
would not have kept even a ... penny of the money I found," The Boston Globe reported. He flagged down a police officer Saturday after finding the bag at the South Bay Center in Dorchester.

"I
would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank everyone — every
pedestrian stranger — who has given me spare change. Thank you!" read
the statement James handed out at police headquarters because "I don't
talk too much because I stutter."

"It's just nice to have some
money in one's pocket so that as a homeless man I don't feel absolutely
broke all the time," he said.

Police Commissioner Edward Davis presented James with a special citation.

James said he had worked at a courthouse for 13 years but lost his job and became homeless in 2005.
As word of the good deed spread, a Virginia man began an online campaign Monday to raise $50,000 to donate to James.

"I thought what he did was very honorable," Ethan Whittington, of Richmond, Va., told Boston Magazine.